Kids and braces.

osarusan

Hi all,

i hope this is the right forum for this and that I haven't missed a similar thread - I did look, I promise.

If there is a more appropriate place for it, i hope a mod will point me in the right direction.

I am currently in japan, and have just taken my daughter to a Japanese dentist. According to him, if we want to get braces to straighten her top two front teeth (they're kind of pointing inwards a little) will cost in the region of 4,000 euro and will require her to go to a dentist every week to have the braces tightened ever so slightly - such treatment wouldn't be covered by Japanese health insurance*. He didn't think braces were really necessary, but we're thinking about it.

Does anybody have any similar experiences with their kids and Irish dentists in terms of the treatment and cost I've mentioned? I'm wondering where it would be better to get tratment done, if we decide to do it.

Thanks.

*With heralth insurance, I had two wisdom teeth taken out a monthe ago for.........35 quid.

Lia_lia

That seems to be the price here in Ireland too. If she has to go every week to get an adjustment the ortho might be giving her an expander or something, which from what I've heard can require frequent appointments. Usually with train tracks it tends be every six weeks. Always different though depending on the person!

If you can afford then go for it I'd say. I'm 23 and have braces at the moment (which I am paying for myself, parents couldn't afford them when I was younger) and I would have loved to have had them when I was a child/teenager.

Maybe try a few different orthodontists in Japan and get their opinions...they'll know best!

Oral Surgeon

Lia_lia wrote: »

Maybe try a few different orthodontists in Japan and get their opinions...they'll know best!

Irish orthodontists are pretty knowledgeable too.....!;)

Lia_lia

Oh I just thought from reading the post that they are going to be in Japan for a while...but yes Irish orthodontists are great!